from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
An Absurd Hypotheticals Advent Calendar, featuring the pizza question, turtle assassins, and more...
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Dec 2025
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from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Dec 2025
Many—maybe most—bootstrapped entrepreneurs tend to bias towards frugality. A dollar saved is a dollar earned. Saving money buys greater freedom, it also enables the entrepreneurs to survive longer, so they have more time to execute their plans or to get lucky. Here are some...
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Dec 2025
Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Custom...
What do LLMs Want?
Plus! Governance; Implementation Risk; Jailbreaking; In-Kind Deals; Revalued Inputs
1st Dec 2025
from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance
1st Dec 2025
Plus! Governance; Implementation Risk; Jailbreaking; In-Kind Deals; Revalued Inputs
from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Dec 2025
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Dec 2025
A new, colorful map from the USGS synthesizes decades of state and federal geologic surveys to create the most detailed visualization of the geology of the contiguous United States to date.
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Dec 2025
Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilizers.
Read more on E360 →
from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
You don’t need permission to lead. You just need to look, sound, and act like a person others instinctively follow. Because, yes, we're all sheep.
from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
Cognitive Legos
We have all likely had the experience that when we learn a task it becomes easier to learn a...
1st Dec 2025
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Dec 2025
We have all likely had the experience that when we learn a task it becomes easier to learn a distinct but related task. Learning to cook one dish makes it easier to learn other dishes. Learning how to repair a radio helps you learn to repair other electronics. Even more...
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Dec 2025
Social graciousness when paths cross is fundamental to this city.
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Dec 2025
UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs
Hidden In Plain Sight
I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The...
1st Dec 2025
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Dec 2025
I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The Queensboro is an outlier among New York City’s bridges in several ways: it’s a cantilever truss, it’s asymmetrical, and it doesn’t clear-span the river it crosses. The Queensboro...
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first experience with downranking was on my very first day at a job in 2011. The day I walked into the building, Google released their first Panda update. My new employer, being a "content...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Dec 2025
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
Why I believe every city needs a super app and how it will transform the way we engage with digital devices.
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Dec 2025
If you walk into the Parthenon or paddle at dawn on Joe Lake, it’s easy to feel a sense of wonder. And waiting in a long line for an important flight can trigger frustration. But much of the time, our state is automatic. What’s your default? Satisfied, bitter, anxious, sad,...
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Dec 2025
Fascinating cartoon strips that predicted the future (or not).
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Dec 2025
By Lucas Nicholson. When tailors and other artisans visit us in London, they nearly always ask about the best places to eat. Their hotel is already booked after all, and they know what they’re doing all day. But local restaurant recommendati... > Read more
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Dec 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Showdown, p22
The post Showdown, p22 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
1st Dec 2025
from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Dec 2025
The post Showdown, p22 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka. This Michelin Bib...
1st Dec 2025
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka. This Michelin Bib Gourmand spot is small and cozy featuring handmade soba noodles. It was a bit of a walk from the Kitahama Station, especially in the scorching heat (in July). Glad their A/C held...
from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
A few weeks ago, I did something bad. Every day, I take a long walk while listening to podcasts on my Apple Watch. The app I use developed a bug after a recent update: whenever I paused, it would lose its place in the show. As you may imagine, this was annoying, so I avoided...
from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Dec 2025
The real risk takers are not who you think they are
from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
The first of two related book reviews
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Dec 2025
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and unique aspects of daily life. Considering how the slang of younger generations can seem indecipherable to older folks, it’s no surprise that the English spoken in Medieval times...
Unblogged November
30 unblogged things I did in November
Sat 1: Spotted a doomed pillarbox in Beckenham High Street...
1st Dec 2025
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Dec 2025
30 unblogged things I did in November
Sat 1: Spotted a doomed pillarbox in Beckenham High Street wrapped in plastic film, ready to be updated to one of those new solar-powered automated boxes. I wonder what they do with the boxes that get replaced.
Sun 2: The sheer irony of a...
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Dec 2025
The English poet William
Cowper (1731-1800) suffered his first attack of mental illness – today we would
likely call it profound depression – at age thirty-two. Before then, while
studying law in the Temple, Cowper dined every Thursday with friends at the
Nonsense Club. He and a...
Hold the Salt
Reconsidering an ancient city's bad reputation
The post Hold the Salt appeared first on The American...
1st Dec 2025
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Dec 2025
Reconsidering an ancient city's bad reputation
The post Hold the Salt appeared first on The American Scholar.
from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Dec 2025
New comic!
Today's News:
Yeah, when my plants die it's because an evil god did it, too.
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
"Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself a developer because he’s from Canada, where only licensed professionals call themselves engineers. Yet the job title Software Developer (ソフトウェア開発者) is only rarely used in...
from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable
now.
But after playing through games like God of War Ragnarök1, I felt like I needed an upgrade. I love playing with the
Steam Deck, but what I love more is playing without having to worry about...
Heap of sand
Interesting probing at how LLMs "think". Read their comment about running the model at temperature 0...
1st Dec 2025
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
Interesting probing at how LLMs "think". Read their comment about running the model at temperature 0 to get raw logits
from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Dec 2025
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
from HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
by Stephanie Eckles
Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If so, you’ve been fighting a fundamental CSS concept of stacking contexts.
The stacking context defines the order things are placed in the third dimension, or the “z” axis. Think of...
from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge.
To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems.
Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1].
Well, my life circumstances...
Recently
This’ll be the last Recently in 2025. It’s been a decent year for
me, a pretty rough year for the...
1st Dec 2025
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
This’ll be the last Recently in 2025. It’s been a decent year for
me, a pretty rough year for the rest of the world. I hope, for everyone,
that 2026 sees the reversal of some of the current trends.
Watching
This video from Daniel Yang, who makes spectacular bikes of his...
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have.
The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my...
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology learning journey with readers.
from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
30th Nov 2025
This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown, ChatGPT’s lead as an end-user product has only solidified. On the Dithering podcast last week (paywalled), Ben Thompson called out an aspect of why this is:
I need someone to write...
from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature
30th Nov 2025
Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning
Not to Know
When my parents sat me down in the living room the night before I was
supposed to leave for college, I thought they were going to tell me they
were getting a divorce. At the time, it was the most terrifying upheaval
I could imagine.
Instead,...
The Money Filter
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming
30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
29th Nov 2025
Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital Signs Monitor Module with Respiration, Temperature and Blood Pressure Measurement”. It advertises a “robust, with electromagnetic interference (EMI), shock, and vibration resistant...
from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics
28th Nov 2025
This is a comic about naked mole rats, aka tube goblins.
View on my website
from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Nov 2025
Inspiration
Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support and online AI chatbots are harnessing their data.
As an alternate, I propose Epictetus- A 100% offline chatbot built on the wisdom of Epictetus-- A Stoic philosopher who taught ~2000 years ago...
Replacing my MacBook
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7)...
28th Nov 2025
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI
28th Nov 2025
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7) which went well, so I’ve been trying to do the same with my laptop.
For phones, this was easier because the Samsung hardware is already better. Sadly, there’s no better laptop...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
28th Nov 2025
Roden Readers —
Ahh, it’s nice. The outside. The outside is nice. Finally, very nice. The best season in Japan. The leaves, they change. Out yonder, Mt. Fuji performs foojalicousness on the horizon as I type these very words. Being a bit coy, hiding, peeking, hiding once again....
from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life
27th Nov 2025
That nice, warm feeling you’re carrying over from Thanksgiving? That fullness after your big family get-together? From the meal, from the company, from all of it? It’s important that you realize not everyone is feeling that right now. In fact, many people are experiencing the...
from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
27th Nov 2025
And other updates from me in November 2025
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
27th Nov 2025
Should you require a model for an Oxford don in a play or novel, look no farther than Andrew Briggs. The emeritus professor of nanomaterials speaks with a southern-English accent as crisp as shortbread, exhibits manners to which etiquette influencer … Continue reading →
from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming
27th Nov 2025
I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping myself occupied has been fairly smooth sailing. There has always been a lot of demand for people with the technical skills that I have gathered over the years, so finding new...
from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI
26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history
26th Nov 2025
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
25th Nov 2025
Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life
from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life
25th Nov 2025
Stories from my visit to the mysterious Himalayan kingdom
The post The sights and sounds of Bhutan appeared first on Wait But Why.
from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance
25th Nov 2025
I thought I was good.
Until I met Sol.
Solomon Rosengarten is a lawyer from Brooklyn. He has an AOL email address. He is not great with the mute button on his phone. He sometimes comes across as incompetent.
But, he is the best damned lawyer I have ever known.
Sol is a killer....
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th Nov 2025
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new...
from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Nov 2025
X? More like XY lmao gotem
from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Nov 2025
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted at eyadquaibi.com
from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology
24th Nov 2025
For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper. Spectra 6 is the latest color epaper tech available, offering 6 colors (black, white, red, green, blue, yellow) in brighter and more saturated tones then its predecessors. And with...
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
24th Nov 2025
Originally posted at the Terraform Blog on November 17, 2025. Terraform Industries is the vehicle by which I build the people that build the team I need to build the future I am determined to build. One of the unexpected privileges of founding an ambitious, future-oriented...
BazelCon 2025 recap
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the...
24th Nov 2025
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Nov 2025
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the now-usual(?) BazelCon 2025 trip report!
from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Nov 2025
November 20th each year is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR).
It is a day when we memorialize those who've been lost to transphobia, through violence or suicide.
And each year, I make the most difficult git commit of the year, updating the list of names in the digital vigil...
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups
23rd Nov 2025
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and
recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a
vast user base of your own?
from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI
23rd Nov 2025
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
McCollesseum
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Nov 2025
from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics
22nd Nov 2025
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI
22nd Nov 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds” recently pointed out a new paper on the Fermi paradox: Antal Veres “The solitude zone: A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence”, Acta Astronautica Volume 238, Part...
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
22nd Nov 2025
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently.
The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex processor at the time, containing 285,000 transistors.
Intel's existing design techniques couldn't handle this complexity and the chip began...
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
22nd Nov 2025
The Path to Secure Attachment with Reality
nested folders @ sketch
hola! 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ )
i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although...
21st Nov 2025
from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design
21st Nov 2025
hola! 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ )
i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although here is freezing and dark-ish, i wanted to write a few words about something i designed at sketch a while back and recently released + some other misc 〜
let’s start with a photo...
from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Nov 2025
tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the red arrow in the cover picture of this article Context I am currently toying around with emulating a USB device. However, I also wanted to be able to plug a keyboard in, so I needed...
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
20th Nov 2025
How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining business to $180m in sales and a $400m valuation.
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
20th Nov 2025
Learning the cardinal directions is an important but often neglected aspect of early geographical education. It is my impression that the understanding of cardinal directions, like most other aspects of geography, is in sharp decline. There are several reasons for this...
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
20th Nov 2025
1.
I recently asked why people seem to hate dating apps so much. In response, 80% of you emailed me some version of the following theory:
The thing about dating apps is that if they do a good job and match people up, then the matched people will quit the app and stop paying. So...
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
19th Nov 2025
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team,
I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal
configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task...
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
19th Nov 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have.
The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right thing. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending...
from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history
17th Nov 2025
Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician, was murdered in a barbaric attack by neo-Nazis in the very center of St. Petersburg, Russia. Although for us, his death was not only a huge personal loss, but also an event that...
from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
17th Nov 2025
I just finished this excellent book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. This book influenced my opinions on p(doom). Before reading the book, I was uncertain about whether AI could pose an existential risk for humanity. After reading the book, I’m starting to entertain the...
from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science
17th Nov 2025
In this post, we will use a practical example to explore the power of statistical control, explaining why adjusting for the right variables clarifies relationships and why adjusting for the wrong ones can introduce new, serious biases.
Third Stage Engineering
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket:
I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology
16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Nov 2025
I don’t know what’s coming next.
from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life
14th Nov 2025
Martin Scorsese's filmmaking idol sends some glowing feedback
from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
14th Nov 2025
If you live in this one county in California, you might be more likely to die from Sin Nombre Virus than in a car crash.
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
Taiwan Rising
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history
13th Nov 2025
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use.
The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Nov 2025
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about , today I’d like to bring that up to date with what went down in V8’s GC over the last couple years.5 years of developments in V8’s garbage
collector
I selected all of the commits to since my previous...
from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Nov 2025
Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups
13th Nov 2025
the building blocks of 21st century political science
Needy Programs
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older...
13th Nov 2025
from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Nov 2025
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.
But recently...
Fields or Hutches?
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered...
12th Nov 2025
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
12th Nov 2025
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.
from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life
12th Nov 2025
A Reverie on the Streets of Utica, NY
from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Nov 2025
The foundations of memory access: static allocation, addressing modes, and the first steps toward low-level thinking.
from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life
12th Nov 2025
How it works and why it made sense
from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life
12th Nov 2025
Stoicism has never been more popular. Is it time for a reaction?
from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design
12th Nov 2025
A few updates + a manifesto?
from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design
12th Nov 2025
What we want now: listening bars, hidden wet bars, Argentine grills, and spaces where every room pulls double duty for the party
Every generation has its own way of gathering at home—the conversion pits and buffets of the ’70s, the formal dinner parties of the ’90s, the open-plan...
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Nov 2025
Job-hunting in Japan as a developer may require you to create an English resume, a Japanese resume, or both. While the companies posting on TokyoDev expect an English-language resume, companies with a mainly Japanese workforce may have different requirements.
There are two types...
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Nov 2025
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Nov 2025
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from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history
11th Nov 2025
Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
Table tennis scoreboard
Last year, my uncles asked me to design an electronic table tennis scoreboard. Apparently, what they...
11th Nov 2025
from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Nov 2025
Last year, my uncles asked me to design an electronic table tennis scoreboard. Apparently, what they wanted wasn’t for sale (at least not in New Zealand). Since they’re very enthusiastic about the game, I agreed and created a design. It features: I’m using an ESP32...
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Nov 2025
In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […]
The post What happened to the comment section? appeared first on The History of the Web.
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Nov 2025
A look at how it works under the hood + what Assort is doing
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Nov 2025
The cities of the developing world could be its growth engine if their streets were not so gridlocked. The solution is laying out wider roads.
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
11th Nov 2025
Straphangers are mourning today after JR East announced that their beloved mascot, the Suica penguin, will retire after 25 years of serving as the iconic face of IC cards. The penguin was designed by picture book author and illustrator Chiharu Sakazaki and was modeled after the...
from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Nov 2025
Towards a Theory of Bulk Orchestration
It’s a key feature of living systems, perhaps even in some ways the key feature: that even right down to a molecular scale, things are orchestrated. Molecules (or at least large ones) don’t just move around randomly, like in a liquid or a...
from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
11th Nov 2025
A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
11th Nov 2025
A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups
11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance
11th Nov 2025
Warren Buffett's Thanksgiving Letter sheds more light on why he decided to retire.
from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology
11th Nov 2025
Because being right isn't enough, unfortunately
memories of .us
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors,
the playground, the...
11th Nov 2025
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
11th Nov 2025
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors,
the playground, the teacher sentencing me to standing in the hallway. I had a
teacher who was a chess fanatic; he painted a huge chess board in the paved
schoolyard and got someone to fabricate big...
what is a favicon?
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
what is a favicon?
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
10th Nov 2025
use it to get to know yourself
from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Nov 2025
Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
9th Nov 2025
October in the markets was one of those slightly giddy months. My portfolio crossed through a big number threshold, and kept going up. The market stats don’t quite tell the whole story. On a constant currency basis, markets rose 2.8%. Non-UK currencies (AUD, EUR, USD) rose...
from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative
9th Nov 2025
“Some people are violent, power-hungry, domineering assholes”
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
9th Nov 2025
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways,...
9th Nov 2025
from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming
9th Nov 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature
9th Nov 2025
Revisiting an old 2020 Invest Like the Best podcast that interviews John Collision, co-founder of Stripe. When asked about his thoughts on no-code:
I don’t think no-code is fully a panacea. Even when you’re doing no-code, you’re still reasoning about the relations between...
How to Break Into VC
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Nov 2025
In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my iPhone.
Eventually, I’ll upgrade to a new iPhone which supports AV1, but in the meantime, I want to convert all of those videos to an older codec.
The problem is finding all the...
from Daily Hive [alt+shift+b] in life
8th Nov 2025
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a playoff performance for the ages.
His eight home runs were the most by a Toronto Blue Jays batter in a single postseason. The 29 hits he registered ranked second all-time in MLB postseason history. He also became the first player to hit a grand slam...
Building Community Tech
Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building
8th Nov 2025
from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life
8th Nov 2025
Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building
Vortices everywhere
The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a...
8th Nov 2025
from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
8th Nov 2025
The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a really interesting combination of topics that, to a lay person, may seem to be completely unrelated.
Fig. 1 from this follow-up PRB.
On the one hand, John Reppy (at age 94!)...
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
8th Nov 2025
The establishment in the 1570s of permanent theaters just
outside of the walls of London led to a massive increase in the demand for new plays. Every available source of stories was looted. English history proved to be especially popular
or at least easy to adapt to the...
from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history
8th Nov 2025
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Nov 2025
I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I thought it was an approachable overview of Tor and its history. If you’re interested, the book is free! Or you can read my chapter-by-chapter notes below.
Chapter 1: Privacy...
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
7th Nov 2025
Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the...
from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
7th Nov 2025
Despite Lowe's and Home Depot, the simplicity of Menards has made it a staple in the Midwest.
The post Menards Teardown: The Masterclass Behind A Midwest Hardware Store appeared first on Scott DeLong.
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
7th Nov 2025
The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average Americans, has propped up the stock market while also potentially setting it up for a nasty fall.
from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
7th Nov 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead
Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed.
A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
7th Nov 2025
Imagine two very bored castaways on a desert island, who have food and shelter but nothing to do. They spend the day throwing coconuts at each other for fun. One day a crate washes up, with its cargo intact: hundreds of classic paperbacks! Melville, Hugo, Tolkien, the Brontës,...
from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative
7th Nov 2025
BIG WEEK IN SPACE, Poseidon, Vulcan's $1.4B, Antibody Design, Chinese TMSR, Aquarius Economy, Space DJ, and Three Things I enjoyed
from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history
7th Nov 2025
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th Nov 2025
Happy Friday, friends and.. others.
We’re glad/sorry to hear that your week has been good/bad, and it’s the weekend/but at least it’s almost the weekend!
What’re We Doing Today, Mr Fox?
Today, in a tale that seems all too
from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science
7th Nov 2025
Why are Japanese elites so likely to be Christian when Japan is a 99% non-Christian country?
The Weeks
Percolating on design
At the end of every year I start to feel it. 2024 ended on a tumultuous note....
7th Nov 2025
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
7th Nov 2025
Percolating on design
At the end of every year I start to feel it. 2024 ended on a tumultuous note. I dive into introspection, combing over the last year in search of pattern and meaning. I gathered what I found at the bottom of the ocean floor, coming up for air with the...
from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
7th Nov 2025
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...
from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI
7th Nov 2025
An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.
from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Nov 2025
Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever before in history
from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life
6th Nov 2025
This topic has been doing the rounds on the indie web recently, initially prompted by David and subsequently by Manu. But instead of using the original template of questions, as many others have done, I’ve decided to create my own pointless series of questions and answers to give...
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
6th Nov 2025
I grew up in India in a time where if you had wealth, your investment options were limited. A stock market with sparse listings, accompanied by a lack of trust in financial assets, led investors to put their wealth into tangible assets. Real estate was the most common choice but...
from the late review [alt+shift+b] in literature
6th Nov 2025
on long covid, hypochondria, and the forums
from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative
6th Nov 2025
Organic Literature & Potent Pleasures
from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science
6th Nov 2025
Many technologies can be used in both healthy and unhealthy ways. You can indulge in food to the point of obesity, or even make it the subject of anxiety. Media can keep us informed, but it can also steal our focus and drain our energy, especially social media. AI can help...
from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI
6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
6th Nov 2025
Byung-Chul Han says in The Crisis of Narration that modernity "is animated by a belief in progress" and its narratives "radiate an aura because the future is a phenomenon of distance". This is evident in our reverence for the monuments of modernism, a reverence formed by wonder...
from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Nov 2025
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it.
My kids enjoy building cute (and...
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
6th Nov 2025
Unpacking a film's financial afterlife once it leaves theaters.
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
6th Nov 2025
When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can enable you to have more visibility, and therefore a more accurate design. Sumi Ink is a great option for block staining, and it's simple and quick.
Brush some Sumi ink onto your...
from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science
6th Nov 2025
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe them?
Et Tu, Aldi?
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger.
The COVID-19 epidemic was underway,...
5th Nov 2025
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Nov 2025
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger.
The COVID-19 epidemic was underway, and we were advised to stay away from each other. It was cold, and the forecast was that an ice storm would hit about sundown (made an hour earlier each year for no good reason by...
from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Nov 2025
All I can manage this week, sorry.
from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science
5th Nov 2025
What if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges — on Earth and beyond — have already been invented by nature? In this forward-looking talk, evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist Dr. Lynn Rothschild explores how life’s patterns, materials, and mechanisms, refined over...
from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
5th Nov 2025
Thanks for signing up to my newsletter for founders! Some big personal news in today's newsletter. Thanks to Tom from Sevalla for supporting High Signal:
The North Shore, Part II
A couple weeks after Olivia and I went to the north shore, Lilah decided she wanted to do a similar...
5th Nov 2025
from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Nov 2025
A couple weeks after Olivia and I went to the north shore, Lilah decided she wanted to do a similar trip. The weather had turned much colder by then, reminding me why we used to head south long before now. I dug out the heavy sleeping bags and we bundled up for what was likely...
from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Nov 2025
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
The evolution of bacteria
Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists...
5th Nov 2025
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
5th Nov 2025
Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists have watched evolution happen in real time, and it’s changed how we understand natural selection.
Who Monitors The Monitor?
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Nov 2025
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
This service...
from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Nov 2025
Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below).
The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Nov 2025
Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the obvious "Flow considered harmful" title. You're welcome.
Turn the volume up.
Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless...
5th Nov 2025
from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Nov 2025
Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless attempts at analysis and reflection and what-does-it-all-mean in the days to come, along with an unimaginable number of hateful attacks. But what's worth reflecting on right now is...
Tab Tab Tab
How humans became training data with paychecks
4th Nov 2025
from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups
4th Nov 2025
How humans became training data with paychecks
Never Ending
You’ll notice the tweaks on the site continue. The big remaining items are the archive page, as...
4th Nov 2025
from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics
4th Nov 2025
You’ll notice the tweaks on the site continue. The big remaining items are the archive page, as well as the RSS feed (which apparently people still use). Those are going to take a little more time, as apparently we’ve been […]
The post Never Ending appeared first on Least I...
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